Improvement in ornamental chain-links



J. L. HEELEY.

ORNAMENTAL CHAIN-LINK.

Patented J'u1y11,1876.

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N-FE 'F-RS, PHOTO-LITNOGRAPNER, WASNINGYON: D. C.

UNITED STATES NT OFFICE.

JAMES L. HEELEY, OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN TO DAVIDSON BROTHERS, OF NEW YORK CITY.

IMPROVEMENT lN ORNAMENTAL CHAlN-LlNKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,790, dated July 11, 1876; application filed June 15, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES L. HEELEY, of North Attleborough, county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chain Links, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 represents a longitudinal central section of a chain-link containing my improvement. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 4 shows a modification of my improvement. Fig. 5 illustrates the chain-link without a supportingpiece.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

My improvement'is especially adapted to links for ornamental chains; and consists in the combination of a central bar which is pro vided with a loop at each end, so as to adapt it to be interlaced with an adjacent link or couplin two or more rings which are arranged parallel to each other and to the central bar, and two or more hooks for holding the rings in position, as hereinafter fully described. It consists, also, in the combination, with the central bar and its loops, the parallel rings, and the hooks, ot' a tubular supportingpiece, which is held between the loops of the central bar, and which forms asupport for the shanks of the hooks by which the rings are held in position.

In the drawing, the letter D designates the central bar of my link; 0 are the rings, and B are hooks. The bar D is bent at its ends to form loops B, and the rings 0 are oblong in shape, while the hooks B are made to clamp the rings at each end. i

The several hooks B may have a common shank, A, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3; or each two hooks may be formed in one piece, as represented in Fig. 4, or .the hooks may be formed separately. If desired, the said hooks may be aftixed to the central bar D, so that they are held by such bar; but they are in the example shown held in place by a supporting-piece, F,

which. is made to inclose the shank or shanks of the hooks, and made of tubular form, being constructed of a spirally-wound wire. This supporting-piece F and the loops B of the central bar D are so arranged relatively to each other that the supportingpiece is firmly locked in position by the said loops.

When the hooks B are made separately, their shanks may be placed either close together or at any distance apart from each other, one at each end of the link being re-.

tained in their proper relative positions by the parallel rings 0, and by the loops B of the central bar.

Any number of the rings 0 may be used as the size of the links will permit, two hooks being used for each ring.

In some instances the link will, be constructed without a supporting-piece, as illustrated in Fig. 5, and in this case the hooks B will be formed with a common tubular shank, a, which takes the ploce of the supportingpiece, and which may be ornamented as may be desired. v

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- l. The combination, in a chain-link, of a central bar, D, which is looped at each end, two or more parallel rings. 0, and two or more hooks, B,'t'or holding the rings in position, the whole constructed and connected together substantiall y as described.

2. The combination, in a chain-link, of a central bar, D, .which is looped at each end, two or more parallel rings, 0, two or more hooks, B, and a supporting-piece, F, the whole constructed and connected together substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 17th day of May, 1876.

JAMES L. HEELEY. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

JOHN DAGGETT, vJ. 0. MoWRY. 

